negative campaigns

Must-reads: Chantal Hébert on dissing the Greens; Norman Spector on the value of another minority; Dan Gardner on election psychology; Christie Blatchford on Sgt. Prescott Shipway; Don Martin and Greg Weston on l’affaire macareux; Thomas Walkom on our dull(er) election campaign.

Just in time for the “Dion Tax Trick” attack ads, my column in the current issue of Maclean’s defending negative advertising. Related: Jamie has a nice post about the death of Tony Schwartz, the creator of the infamous Daisy ad that Lyndon Johnson used to beat Goldwater.